Colonel Thomas B. W. Stockton
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Colonel Thomas B. W. Stockton was a Union Army officer and regimental leader from Michigan who served prominently during the American Civil War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Colonel Thomas B. W. Stockton canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5270778 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Colonel Thomas B. W. Stockton Context triple: [16th Michigan Infantry, commander, Colonel Thomas B. W. Stockton]
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A.
Colonel John W. McLane
Colonel John W. McLane was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War best known for leading the 83rd Pennsylvania Infantry in key engagements such as the Battle of Gettysburg.
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B.
Colonel Maxcy Gregg
Colonel Maxcy Gregg was a Confederate officer and brigade commander from South Carolina who fought in several major battles of the American Civil War before being mortally wounded at Fredericksburg.
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C.
Colonel Alexander Bliss
Colonel Alexander Bliss was a 19th-century American editor and publisher best known for requesting and preserving one of the authoritative manuscript copies of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.
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D.
William Meade
William Meade was a prominent 19th-century American Episcopal bishop and religious leader known for his influential role in the church and in Virginia society.
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E.
Brigadier General Daniel Tyler
Brigadier General Daniel Tyler was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War, known for his early-war command roles and involvement in key Eastern Theater operations.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Colonel Thomas B. W. Stockton Target entity description: Colonel Thomas B. W. Stockton was a Union Army officer and regimental leader from Michigan who served prominently during the American Civil War.
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A.
Colonel John W. McLane
Colonel John W. McLane was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War best known for leading the 83rd Pennsylvania Infantry in key engagements such as the Battle of Gettysburg.
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B.
Colonel Maxcy Gregg
Colonel Maxcy Gregg was a Confederate officer and brigade commander from South Carolina who fought in several major battles of the American Civil War before being mortally wounded at Fredericksburg.
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C.
Colonel Alexander Bliss
Colonel Alexander Bliss was a 19th-century American editor and publisher best known for requesting and preserving one of the authoritative manuscript copies of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.
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D.
William Meade
William Meade was a prominent 19th-century American Episcopal bishop and religious leader known for his influential role in the church and in Virginia society.
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E.
Brigadier General Daniel Tyler
Brigadier General Daniel Tyler was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War, known for his early-war command roles and involvement in key Eastern Theater operations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (21)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American Civil War military personnel
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Union Army officer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| allegiance | Union ⓘ |
| conflict | American Civil War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Stockton ⓘ |
| givenName | Thomas ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Union Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | colonel ⓘ |
| militaryRole | regimental leader ⓘ |
| notableEvent | American Civil War service ⓘ |
| notableFor | service as a Union regimental leader from Michigan during the American Civil War ⓘ |
| occupation |
military officer
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soldier ⓘ |
| positionHeld | regimental commander ⓘ |
| residence | Michigan ⓘ |
| servedIn |
Union Army units from Michigan
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linked to:
Michigan Civil War regiments
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| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| stateOfOrigin | Michigan ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Colonel Thomas B. W. Stockton Description of subject: Colonel Thomas B. W. Stockton was a Union Army officer and regimental leader from Michigan who served prominently during the American Civil War.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.